I grew tomatoes in containers on my deck for the first time this summer, and boy was I surprised at how many I got. I’ve been trying to come up with different uses for all of them and figured that it wouldn’t be right if I didn’t include fresh tomato soup in my experiments. I…
Chicken Wild Rice Soup
It was a typical August weekend in Minnesota. The weather was in the mid-eighties, it was sunny, and humid – like stepping out the door felt like stepping into a sauna- humid. And the husband was gone. So what did I decide to do? I made soup. Yes, you heard me right and before you…
Grilled Banana Sundaes
The other day after the sister and I made pizza, we were in the mood for a little dessert and still in the mood to grill. I happened to have some bananas so we decided to grill them and throw them on top of some ice-cream for a simple dessert. To keep things simple (and…
Chicken, Peach & Gorgonzola Pizza
With both of the men in our lives gone for the weekend, the sister and I made plans to spend the afternoon shopping and grab lunch at Punch Pizza, this awesome Napoleon style pizza place. Somewhere along the way we both decided to spend the day cleaning our respective houses (yeah….I don’t understand how it happened…
Cream Cheese Fruit Dip
When I was growing up, whenever we had parties down at the lake we always had a tray of fruit and to go with it this yummy, creamy, sweet, marshmallowy, dip. Now I bring it with me to our hunting camps each fall and both my uncle and sister admit that the fruit merely serves…
Stuffed Hashbrowns
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day right? I love breakfast, especially what we used to call ‘lumberjack’ breakfasts growing up. This means a good stick to your ribs so you can get a lot of work done breakfast. There used to be a restaurant in Ely called Northern Grounds that made the…
